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A Regional Reign of Terror

Eric Foner The New York Review
Most Americans now grasp that violence was essential to the functioning of slavery, but a new book excavates the lesser known brutality of everyday Black life in the Jim Crow South.

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‘Justice’ Review: Brett Kavanaugh Doc Should Compel FBI To Reopen Investigation

Christian Blauvelt IndieWire
Doug Liman’s “Justice,” a breathtaking documentary about Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s silenced sexual assault accusers, goes a long way to proving the reality of the fears at the heart of this particular case. Mainly, that there was such a desire at several levels of government to see Kavanaugh on the bench that due diligence wasn’t followed, and barely even attempted. A compelling piece of journalism.

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Radical Justice

Dana Dunham The Chicago Review of Books
This 2022 Pulitzer Prize winner in history is a tale of crime, racism, power, and the conflict between punitive and restorative justice in settler-colonial North America.

Budgeting Justice

Celina Su Boston Review
Cities must empower historically marginalized communities to shape how public funds are spent.

Locked Up and Left to Die

Michael Barajas, Sophie Novack Texas Observer
In Texas, dying in jail is “par for the course.”
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